Bonnie Lee Green was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Theo James Green and his wife, Jean.[1][2] In 1969, she married Paul K. Oscarson in the Salt Lake Temple, and they have seven children. For much of the early years of their marriage they lived in St. Louis, Missouri, where her husband had been born and raised. (Her husband's father, Roy W. Oscarson, was the first LDS Church stake president in St. Louis.)[3] Bonnie Oscarson's appointment as general president of the Young Women was welcomed by church members in the St. Louis area.[4]